A Testimony of Community: Rebecca Hardy attends Emily Provance’s Swarthmore Lecture

‘People have a desperate need to be listened to.’

by Rebecca Hardy 30th May 2025

At the end of January 2019, Emily Provance left her Harlem apartment, picked up her backpack and caught a bus to Ohio. With no keys in her backpack, ‘this was the act of giving up a home to go home to’, Emily told the 600 or so Quakers assembled in Friends House (with a further 230 online).